| | | | | The actor who plays Gendry talks about the final episodes, his next project, and the scene everyone was talking about. | | [ view in browser. add esquire@newsletter.esquire.com to your address book ] | | |  |  | | | | Joe Dempsie Was Nearly Jon Snow. Now Gendry Is Game of Thrones' Most Earnest Heartthrob. | | | It's the morning after the Game of Thrones Season Eight premiere in Manhattan and Joe Dempsie is dragging from the party. He's also jetlagged, having flown in from England for the April unveiling of the HBO blockbuster. But as he pulls his smart phone from his back pocket, he perks up as he taps through to YouTube. "This video is amazing. It's called Ode to Joe. Oh yeah. It's here. Do you want to see it?" he asks with a conspiratorial smile, scooting forward on the couch and turning his phone to face me. "Come on 4G." The video starts with a young woman facing the camera to say, "Come on, Joe, don't be scared. It's all love," as she plays the piano below the frame. A few seconds in, seven people in black T-shirts and sunglasses slowly rise from behind her to harmonize as she sings an original ballad about the actor who plays Game of Thrones' most low-key heartthrob, Gendry Baratheon. Dempsie shares a certain modesty with his character. When talking about his passionate fans, he seems genuinely tickled about the attention. Marie, the star of the YouTube video, went so far as to send her song to all of Dempsie's Thrones castmates. Finn Jones (who plays Ser Loras Tyrell) insisted Dempsie respond. "So, we freeze frame the video on her face and then I went and planted a kiss and we took a picture and sent it to her," the 31-year-old says. "But we never met." Gendry's humility—along with his many shirtless blacksmith scenes—have made him an easy character to like and root for. He's portrayed as an outsider, which makes him relatable, despite playing an incredibly important role in the series. As the last known living child of Robert Baratheon, he has a claim to the Iron Throne, but his total screen time has been relatively meager. In fact, he was off-camera rowing for three full seasons after Davos Seaworth rescues him from the clutches of Melisandre in Season Three. So fans were thrilled when he returned—and reunited with Arya Stark, to whom he proposed in Episode Four after he was bestowed with the title of Lord of Storm's End. READ MORE | | | | |  |
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